Expensive electricity bills: You have to pay so much more when you work from home
Created: 05/09/2022, 15:15
By: Juliane Gutmann
The more time you spend in your own four walls, the higher the electricity bill.
You can read about the impact of home office regulations here.
The desk lamp, the battery of the laptop or the kettle: those who work from home usually use more electricity than usual. This is also reflected in the electricity bill.
The comparison
portal Check24
has determined how home office affects the monthly electricity payments.
Accordingly, when working from home*, there are additional costs of around 25 to 43 cents a day.
This corresponds to an annual amount of up to 94 euros.
But it depends on how often you work from home.
According to the
mirror ,
Check24 based the
calculation
on the following parameters
:
220 days of working from home (laptop used eight hours a day, as well as a monitor and an LED desk lamp)
The kettle or coffee maker is used for ten minutes a day on homework days;
the electric stove for half an hour or the microwave for five minutes.
The average price per kilowatt hour of electricity is 33.9 cents
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Claim home office for tax purposes
As
Der Spiegel
further reported, additional costs for heating, water or internet were not calculated.
The additional costs of up to 94 euros per year are exclusively related to electricity charges.
The expenses incurred by working from home can be claimed for tax purposes.
Employees can deduct up to 600 euros home office flat rate as income-related expenses or operating expenses.
This is five euros per working day in the home office - for a maximum of 120 days a year.
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